SEOUL: Kim Yong-hyun, former protection minister and shut confidante of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, turned the primary official to be arrested on Tuesday night (Dec 10) over Yoon’s declaration of martial regulation.
Kim tried to take his personal life whereas in detention, officers stated Wednesday.
Here’s what we learn about Kim and his function within the tried martial regulation.
WHO IS KIM YONG-HYUN?
Kim was born in 1959 within the southeastern coastal metropolis of Masan. He joined the Korean Military Academy, which educates and trains Army cadets, in 1978 and took on a number of key roles together with commander of capital protection and chief of operations on the Joint Chiefs of Staff earlier than retiring in 2017 as a three-star basic.
Under Yoon, he served because the inaugural minister of the Presidential Security Service till he was named protection minister final September.
Kim has displayed uncompromising views on North Korea and total safety points, warning in his first speech as protection chief that North Korean chief Kim Jong Un’s regime would pay a “horrendous value” and finally see its finish if it phases a provocation.
WHAT IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH YOON?
When Yoon appointed Kim as protection minister final August, his chief of employees described him as the one that “understands the commander-in-chief’s intentions higher than anybody.”
Kim attended Chungam High School in Seoul, which Yoon additionally attended, which helped them construct a relationship and finally laid the inspiration for what opposition lawmakers known as the Chungam faction — Kim’s closest circle of confidants Yoon – which additionally included the now resigned Interior Minister Lee. Sang-min and Defense Counterintelligence Commander Yeo In-hyeong.
Kim, together with Lee, has been the longest-serving official since Yoon took workplace in May 2022.
